The First London Anarchist Studies Network London Social - Be There or Be Somehere Else!
Tuesday 2nd March, 7pm - Freedom Bookshop, Whitechapel.
This is an opportunity for Anarchist students, researchers and Anarchist academics living, working or visiting in the capital to meet, talk and socialise. Freedom have even agreed to raise the ceiling to ensure all those pointy heads fit in the building!
Bring a bottle and get yourself down there.
Freedom is at Angel Alley, 84b Whitechapel High Street - nearest tube Aldgate East. For those arriving late, we will at some stage decamp to the nearby White Hart public house for further refreshments.
ASN wins £1400 for 2009 activities
The ASN was today (14/04/09) awarded £1400 by the PSA to fund our activities in 2009. In a seperate bid, the PSA also awarded the group £2000 for its forthcoming joint conference with the Marxism specialist group (see below).
Is Black and Red Dead?
An historic conference co-organised by the ASN and the PSA Marxism Specialist Group. A full call for papers, registration forms, payment details and posters can be found here.
New Call for Papers: Anarchism, Labor Unions, and Working People
Click on Call for Papers above
Call for Papers: Anarchism and Sexuality in Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries
Leeds, 19 February 2010.
ANARCHISTS ORGANISE PISS-UP IN BREWERY (01/08/08)
To celebrate the second birthday of the establishment of ASN in November 2007, members organised a tour of Nottingham's Castle Rock Brewery. Hangovers contributed to it taking this long to post up the announcement.
On some of the most common understandings of "anarchism" and "the political," the phrase "anarchist political theory" ought to be redundant (of course, according to another popular definition, it ought to be oxymoronic). Thus, it's terrifically difficult to draw any useful boundaries around "anarchist political theory" as a subject area. Nonetheless, there seems to be a shared desire to draw up some list(s) of the most useful, important, and/or persuasive statements of anarchism as a political philosophy. This list ought to be read in conjunction with many of the others and there is much overlap between them. The professionalisation of anarchist studies may bring clearer conventional distinctions between the subject areas, but this may ultimately be to the detriment of the richness of anarchist thought.
Bakunin, Mikhail (1972). Bakunin on Anarchy: Selected Works By the Activist-Founder of World Anarchism. Ed. and trans. Sam Dolgoff. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
- - - (1992). The Basic Bakunin: Writings, 1869-1871. Trans. and ed. Robert M. Cutler. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus. <--Cutler's introduction is interesting.
- - - (1970). God and the State. New York: Dover Publications, Inc.
- - - (1998). Marxism, Freedom and the State. Trans. and ed. K.J. Kenafick. London: Freedom Press.
- - - (1953). The Political Philosophy of Bakunin: Scientific Anarchism. Ed. G.P. Maximoff. Glencoe, IL: Free Press.
- - - (1990). Statism and Anarchy. Ed. and trans. Marshall Shatz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Bookchin, Murray (1971). Post-Scarcity Anarchism. San Francisco: Ramparts Books.
- - - (1990). Remaking Society: Pathways to a Green Future. Boston, MA: South End Press.
Goldman, Emma (1969). Anarchism and Other Essays. New York: Dover Publications.
Kropotkin, Peter (1972). The Conquest of Bread. Ed. Paul Avrich. New York: New York University Press.
- - - (1970). Kropotkin’s Revolutionary Pamphlets. New York: Dover Publications.
- - - (1992). Words of a Rebel. Trans. George Woodcock. Montréal: Black Rose Books.
Landauer, Gustav (1978). For Socialism. Trans. David J. Parent. St. Louis: Telos Press.
Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph (1989). The General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century. Trans. John Beverly Robinson. London: Pluto Press.
- - - (1979). The Principle of Federation. Trans. Richard Vernon. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press.
- - - (1969). Selected Writings of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. Ed. Stewart Edwards. Trans. Elizabeth Fraser. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.
- - - (1970). What is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government. Trans. Benjamin R. Tucker. New York: Dover.
Stirner, Max [Johann Kaspar Schmidt] (1907). The Ego and His Own. Trans. Stephen Byington. New York: Benjamin R. Tucker.
Baldelli, Giovanni (1971). Social Anarchism. Chicago: Aldine, Atherton.
Biehl, Janet (1998). The Politics of Social Ecology: Libertarian Municipalism. Montréal: Black Rose Books.
Buber, Martin (1996). Paths in Utopia. Trans. R. F. C. Hull. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. <--The chapter on Landauer alone is a classic.
Carter, Alan (2000). "Analytical Anarchism: Some Conceptual Foundations." Political Theory 28.2: 230-53.
Carter, April (1971). The Political Theory of Anarchism. New York: Harper & Row.
Colson, Daniel (2001). Petit lexique philosophique de l'anarchisme de Proudhon à Deleuze. Paris: Librairie Générale Française.
Guérin, Daniel (1970). Anarchism: From Theory to Practice. New York: Monthly Review Press.
McLaughlin, Paul (2002). Mikhail Bakunin: The Philosophical Basis of His Theory of Anarchism. New York: Algora Pub. <--A forceful rereading of Bakunin's works that avoids the reductive tendencies of most of the rest of the English-language literature on him.
Morris, Brian (2004). Kropotkin: The Politics of Community. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books.
Alexander Berkman (2000) ABC of Anarchism. London, Freedom Press
Emma Goldman (1998) Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader. Compiled and edited by Alix Kates Shulman. New York, Humanity Books.
Errico Malatesta (1995) The Anarchist Revolution: Polemical Articles 1924-1931. Edited and introduced by Vernon Richards. London, Freedom Press.
Errico Malatesta (2005) At the Café: Conversations on Anarchism. Edited and introduced by Paul Nursey Bray. Translated by Paul Nursey Bray and Piero Ammirato. London, Freedom Press.
Errico Malatesta (1993) His Life and Ideas. Compiled and edited by Vernon Richards. London, Freedom Press.
Rudolf Rocker (1989) Anarcho-Syndicalism. Preface by Noam Chomsky. Introduction by Nicolas Walter. London, Pluto Press.
Agamben, Giorgio (1998). Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. <--Agamben's book poses the problem of State power in relation to Foucault's biopolitics (the politics of the administration of life) and its creation of bare life (vita nuda) -- life left exposed in the no-man's-land between life and death. He proposes the development of a new politics and new philosophy in exodus from the State.
Agamben, Giorgio (2000). Means Without End. Trans. V. Binetti and C. Casarino. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press. <--A collection of essays by Agamben, which form reflections on anti-Statist, anti-spectacular politics, including a diary section focus on the Italian situation.
Karatani, Kōjin (2003). Transcritique on Kant and Marx. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. <--Fascinating rereading of Marx which seems to place him, weirdly enough, in the camp of Proudhon.
Koch, Andrew M. (1993). "Poststructuralism and the Epistemological Basis of Anarchism." Philosophy of the Social Sciences 23.3: 327-51.
Marx, Karl (1995). The Poverty of Philosophy. Trans. H. Quelch. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
May, Todd (1994). The Political Philosophy of Poststructuralist Anarchism. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.
Newman, Saul (2001). From Bakunin to Lacan: Anti-Authoritarianism and the Dislocation of Power. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.